This is either a petroglyph of an alien astronaut who visited Earth and gave
ancient peoples wonderful space technology like how to build
the Pyramids, or it’s a guy playing a flute.
When an opinion starts off by characterizing your complaint as asserting “a bevy of claims,” you know you
We suggest you take a read through the California Court of Appeal’s opinion in Felkay v. City of Santa Barbara, No. B304964 (Mar. 18, 2021). It’s all there: Lucas wipeout takings, futility and exhaustion, coastal zone property rights.
This is an inverse condemnation case, seeing compensation for the city denying the owner any economically
You listened live. Or you missed that, and listened to the recording. Or, you preferred to review what others thought of the arguments. Now you can read it yourself.
Here’s the transcript of Monday’s oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107, the case in which the Supreme Court
In which we join the Pendulum Land Podcast (again, thank you hosts!) to talk about the Virginia Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Johnson v. City of Suffolk, the case we label the “oyster takings” case in which Hampton Roads oystermen claimed that their property was taken when the City of Suffolk and the Sanitation
Here are links to the summaries and analysis of yesterday’s oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107, the case asking whether California’s forbidding of agricultural property owners from keeping out union organizers is a taking:
Neutral
Here’s the recorded arguments.
Dig this: property owners assert that the County’s right of way dedication ordinance is an unlawful exaction. You know the drill – logical nexus, rough proportionality, etc. Nollan, Dolan, Koontz. Here’s the short story: the owners sought subdivision plat approval without the dedication for public roads required by the ordinance. No deal. The County’s process
You remember that Seventh Circuit case challenging (as, inter alia, a no-public-use taking) the location of the Obama Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park under the public trust (from the home of the American public trust doctrine, Chicago)? We wrote about it in “Friends Without Benefits: CA7 Rejects Takings Claim For Obama Center
We don’t usually post trial court rulings, but this one is very interesting, so we’re going to break our own rule.
New Orleans had a traffic camera program. Not popular, we’d suppose. People who were caught on camera brought a class action suit in Louisiana state court, arguing that the city didn’t have the legal
Here’s the cert petition, recently filed, which asks the following Questions Presented:
Petitioner owns a parcel of land in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Terminal Railroad formerly had the right to operate a portion of rail line subject to a conditional easement over a portion of Petitioner’s property. The easement terminated according to its terms. Nevertheless